Machine for polishing boots or shoes.



PATENTED SEPT. 15, 1903. C. BILADEAU & A. P. GHAPDELAINE. MACHINE FOR POLISHING BOOTS' 0R SHOES.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 16. 1903.

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UNITED STATES- Patented September 15, 1905;.

PATENT OFFICE.

OALIOE BILADEAU AND ADELARD P. GHAPDELAINE, OF BROCKTON,

MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FQR POLISHING BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 738,976, dated. September 15, 1903.

Application filed May 16, 1903. serial No. 157,438. (N 0 model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CALIGE BILADEAU and ADELARD P. OHAPDELAINE, citizens of the United States, residing at Brockton, in .the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Polishing Boots or Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in machines for polishing boots and shoes; and

novelconstruction and mode of operation for the efficient performance of this work.

The invention consists in the novel features of construction and arrangement of parts and mode of operation hereinafter set forth and claimed, reference'being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional viewillustrating one form of driving-gearing. Fig. 2 is an end view. Fig. 3 is a front view, and Fig. 4 a rear view, of the machine.

In said drawings, in which is illustrated an eificient and the best-known form of construction and arrangement of parts embodying my invention, the reference-numeral 1 designates standards by which the other elements of the machine are supported.

The numeral 2 designates the polishingwheel carried by a rotatable shaft 3, mountedin suitable bearings in the standards and receiving its motion from a suitable source of power by means of a band-pulley 4. The surface of this polishing-wheel is of suitable contour and is provided with a suitable facing 5, such as'fabric,for receiving the polishing-wax and applying the same to the part of the boot or shoe which is to be polished. Supported by the standards 1, in cooperative relation to the polishing-wheel 2, is aframe 6, provided at one end with a wax-well 7 and at the other end with the boot or shoe rest 8. Mounted to rotate in suitable bearingsin this frame is a Waxsupply roll 9, that works in the wax in the well 7 and operates to transfer or supply wax to the polishing-wheel 2. The boot or shoe rest 8 is provided with a suitable cushion of leather, felt, or the like, so as to avoid any abrasion or injury of a boot or shoe placed thereon in the polishing operation. The frame 6 is a tilting or oscillating one, being pivoted to the standards 1, as shown at 10. A gage 11 is arranged beneath the frame 6, provided with a stop 12 at one end to limit the tilting or oscillation of the frame at that end, and an adjustable stop 13, shown in the form of a screw, is arranged at the other end to limit the oscillation or tilting of the frame at that end. A suitable heating device 14, which in the present example of the invention illustrated is a-lam-p, is arranged beneath the waxwell and serves to melt and maintain in a melted or liquefied condition the wax within the well. When at rest, the position of the frame 6 is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the drawings,the wax-supply roll being out of contact with the polishing-wheel 2, and the arrangement is such that the preponderance of weight of the frame 6 is on the wax-well side of the pivot 10,- so that the frame normally and automaticall 1 assumes the inactive position upon removing a boot or shoe from the rest and is brought to active position, in which the supply-roll feeds the melted or liquefied wax to the polishing-wheel 2 when a boot or shoe is placed upon the shoe-rest.

In operation, the wax in the well having been melted or liquefied by the heating device, a shoe is placed upon the shoe-restfor example, in the manner illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, where the operation of polishing a shoe-heel is illustrated. In the act of doing this the tilting or oscillating frame is automatically moved to bring the wax-roll into contact with the polishing-wheel 2,whereby the melted or liquefied wax is supplied to said polishing wheel. The operator then moves the shoe so as to imparta half-rotation, as it were, to the heel in contact with the polishing-wheel, whereby the wax is caused to thoroughly impregnate or fill the pores of the leather of the heel, as it were, and impart a high polish thereto, after which the shoe is reversed and the other side of the heel similiarly rotated to impregnate or fill the pores of its leather with the wax and impart a high polish thereto.

The stop 13 may be adjusted to different degrees to accommodate different work to be done by the machine. This stop 13 may also the polishing-wheel. This will perhaps be frequently desirable, as the polishing-wheel may take up suificient wax to polish a number of boots or shoes, in which case, of course, it will not be desired that the wax-supply roll shall supply further wax to the wheel, and in such cases the stop will be so adjusted that when the shoe is introduced the supply-roll will not come into contact with or feed wax to the polishing-wheel.

In practice it has been found that the machine described is very efficient in its operation.

A suitable means of driving the wax-supplyroll from the shaft of the polishing-wheel is illustrated in the drawings and consists of a belt trained about a pulley 15 on the shaft 3 of the polishing-wheel and a relatively large pulley 16 on the main shaft, which also carries the relatively small pulley 1'7, belted to the relatively large pulley 18 on the shaft of the wax-supply roll, whereby a suitable relative speed of rotation of the Wax-supply roll, as compared with that of the polishing-wheel, is attained.

The invention is not restricted to the particular construction and arrangement of parts herein described, as modifications thereof may readily suggest themselves to skilled mechanics, and therefore it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to such details, but resides in the combination, arrangement, and mode of operation set forth in the following clauses of the claim.

Preferably a shield 19 to prevent splashing of the wax is provided, as shown in the drawings.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new is- 1. In a machine for polishing boots and shoes,the combinationwith a polishing-wheel, of a frame provided with a wax-Well, a waxsupply roll, a shoe rest, and a heating de-- vice for melting or liquefying the wax.

2. In a machine for polishing boots and shoes,the combinationwith a polishing-wheel, of a tilting frame provided with a wax-well, a wax-supply roll and a shoe-rest.

3. I11 a machine for polishing boots and shoes, th e combina tionwith a polishing-wheel,

of a tilting frame provided with a wax-Well, a wax-supply roll, a shoe-rest, and a gage having stops to limit the tilting of the frame.

4. In a machine for polishing boots and shoes,the combinationwith a polishing-wheel, of a tilting frame provided with a wax-well, a wax-supply roll,- a shoe-rest, and a heating device for melting or liquefying the wax.

5. In a machine for polishing boots and shoes, the combinationwith a polishing-wheel, of a tilting frame provided with a wax-well, a wax-supply roll, a shoe-rest, a gage having stops to limit the tilting of the frame, and a heating device for melting or liquefying the wax.

6. In a machine for'polishing boots and shoes, the combination with apolishing-wheel, of a tilting frame provided with a wax-well, a wax-supply roll, a shoe-rest, and an adjustable stop for said frame.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CALICE BILADEAU. ADELARD P. OI'IAPDELAINE.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR L. RICH, R. W. HIGGINS. 

